Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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... miles away . He was engaged in that , at times , before he had reached the age of eleven . And he drove a team forty miles to Cincinnati , carrying a load of rags which he sold for fifteen dollars . A more adven- turous journey was one ...
... miles away . He was engaged in that , at times , before he had reached the age of eleven . And he drove a team forty miles to Cincinnati , carrying a load of rags which he sold for fifteen dollars . A more adven- turous journey was one ...
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... miles apart . On the Tennessee river at this spot the enemy has Fort Henry - and due east , twelve miles away - where you see the town of Dover on the Cumberland river , he has a strongly garrisoned fort called Fort Donelson . We can ...
... miles apart . On the Tennessee river at this spot the enemy has Fort Henry - and due east , twelve miles away - where you see the town of Dover on the Cumberland river , he has a strongly garrisoned fort called Fort Donelson . We can ...
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... miles directly south of Fort Henry , and is almost exactly on the border line between Tennessee and Mississippi . At that time the Landing was nothing but a steamboat wharf and a log - house , on the west side of the river , with a ...
... miles directly south of Fort Henry , and is almost exactly on the border line between Tennessee and Mississippi . At that time the Landing was nothing but a steamboat wharf and a log - house , on the west side of the river , with a ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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